 | | | Pipe variable to CUT | Pipe variable to CUT 2005-04-14 - By Venkatachalam, Saravanakumar
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Jeff Boyce wrote:
> Greetings -
>
> I am having a problem using CUT to obtain a subset of text within a
> variable in a simple shell script. The purpose of the shell script is
> to obtain the current name of the tape in my tape drive so that I can
> determine if it the appropriate tape to recycle. The first line of
> the script reads the name currently assigned to the tape. The output
> of VALUE2 below should produce the text *Wednesdays*, instead it is
> producing nothing. If I manually enter..... tpname=Wednesdays|cut -f2
> --delimiter=..... I get the output.... Wednesdays. But when running
> the script below I get nothing. $VALUE1|cut -f2 -d= produces the same
> result. What am I missing, possibly some simple escape or quote?
>
> Input Script
> VALUE1=`arkc -drive -read -D name=BisonTape`
> echo 'Value1 : '$VALUE1
> VALUE2=$VALUE1|cut -f2 --delimiter=
> echo 'Value2 : '$VALUE2
>
> Display Output
> Value1 : tpname=Wednesdays
> Value2 :
>
>
> Jeff Boyce
> www.meridianenv.com
>
>
hi,
you missed the echo command and back quotes
try this..
VALUE2=`echo $VALUE1|cut -f2 --delimiter=`
regards,
saravanan
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